Cocoa+5+Stickies

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 * Please enter each** **Post IT note, according to the topic and number of dots.**


 * Ex:** **Organizational Change Policies: 19 dots** **and then list each stickie comment.**


 * These comments** **are proactive solutions to overcoming a barrier or restraint that informs your role as a coach in the reculturing schools around 21st Century change.**

Teamwork/ Collaboration
 * attempt to make partnerships where a need exists.
 * don't pretend to have the answers, know who does and build internal networking/sharing
 * scheduling common planning periods with teams or departments
 * pre-determine possible collaboration opportuniities for teachers. then allow them to choose
 * hold monthly teach meetings to dicuss in departments
 * provide time for teachers to collaborate, plan, create, implement, asses PBL and 21st century learning
 * use faculity meeting time to collaborate with other teachers and discuss new ideas like project based learning. Distribute building information via email or though social networking rather than wasting faculty meetings on them
 * common plan time could be incorporated and better utalized
 * allow for collaborative time for interdisciplinary conversations/projects in place of a faculty meeting
 * beg, borrow, and share ideas
 * PLN for teachers
 * technology steering committee for districts
 * have teacher groups setting goals for using tech and have time with their coaches
 * accept feedback
 * give feedback
 * continue reflections and share outs through electornis means, if necessary MODEL!

Coach Role Equipment
 * Train more coaches or even Assistant coaches to work with grade groups to encouarge and implement neccessady changes
 * Elevate the coach position higher on the curriculum dicisions ladder
 * have teachers in the district that are using PBL model great projects that they have
 * Find some really great projects that other coaches or Keystones have for examples
 * Jump through hoops and stop complaining .... student achievement > hoops
 * empathise
 * celebrate success
 * observe
 * baby steps
 * be flexible
 * be persistant
 * what can individuals do?
 * model
 * share
 * mentor
 * coaching job defined (clarity)
 * administrators need between definations so they can relay info to staff
 * Give teachers equal access to technology regarless of content or subject matter

Community/Parents
 * Saturday community event teach families
 * Exam ways to assess PBL and share this with parents, administrators who are very focused on the # of grades assignments per week
 * PR community school board demo
 * Get community involvement on PBL - what real world warning can help students outside of school environment

Environment/Organization
 * from PBL commitee of teachers
 * Monthly meeting newsletter
 * be more proactive
 * try new things
 * experiment

Tech Support
 * Free up technical staff to do work only in classroom situations to ensure that technology will work or be functional within a short amount of time
 * using all available technology including cell phones and smart phones
 * problem: firewall ... solution: tech students how to use social networking properly rather than banning it entirely
 * just - in - time support for teachers

Systematic Hier
 * problem: time .... solution: hiring more people to run and encourage cff

Celebrations/Success Stories
 * share my enthusiasm
 * what works - we have a faculty that cares about the students - if we can tap into this desire - we can grow
 * whats working now? some teachers do PBL without knowing it, one in particular does fantastic projects, but does not share
 * apple training resources
 * share success stories
 * teachers model
 * find lead teachers willing to showcase ideas and lessons
 * Let some teachers just teach

Funding
 * Make coaching full time at each school. I can't invest too much if I don't have the job next year.
 * Money- for training, equipment
 * State funding for education must be equitable throughout the state- wish I had a solution to suggest but I do not
 * Continue grant funding for equipment
 * Pay teachers a professional salary- utilize a 12 month contract where 3 months are curriculum building time for the lessons they will teach the other 9 months

Professional Development
 * Training- require training will not learn experiement on own
 * Use in-service to actually collaborate with others and create workable solutions
 * More training for teachers on alternative assessments
 * Stay the course with new ideas within professional development
 * "Cookies" share one relevant resource a teacher needs with many. 1. avoids overwhelming 2. They want what everyone else has
 * PD in PBL to faculty- How to make it work. What does it look like in 21st century?
 * Using a google form for teacher needs survey, meet with my "cove" teachers and show/talk abouot a PBL lesson that they could use
 * Work with one group of teachers then another to implement
 * Model PBL and show teachers stats to encourage them to change their ways
 * Provide model lesson examples
 * Flexible in-service days for teachers
 * Have a "technology expo" at the school so that teachers can get excited about available technologies
 * Identify and teach specific 21st century skills in specific grade level state-wide
 * More training for teachers
 * Research PBL ideas
 * Create a professional development resource for PBL
 * Bring in a presenter for in-service day on PBL
 * Show examples of what PBL looks like or may be a format for implementation

Assessment
 * Eliminate PSSA and Keystone
 * Shorten PSSA test-taking time
 * Research data ti support PBL
 * Find data that supports project based learning and PSSA/Keystone test results
 * Change the nature of how the state measures progress and AYP. While we need to be held accountable, nothing has done more to slow innovation and creativity than teaching to the test and single-minded obsession on the part of admin on meeting AYP

Administration
 * Innovative idea- Pilot groups that have "more" latitude to try new things (open tech opportunity)
 * Educate the superintendents and board members- maybe through our IU program- about the need to move forward, break out of traditional modes
 * Revamp teacher schedules to allow for common planning time
 * Send administrators to technology boot camp- so they get on board
 * Innovative ideas- have pilot groups made up of "eagles" who are able to work their challenges- team-rely on each other
 * Educate administrators, school board on PBL effectiveness
 * Inform administrators
 * Districts/state should provide more money to hire more tech/it people
 * Have admin lead by example. Work with them sometime before teachers.
 * Convince upper admin that changing from the old model will actually increase their test scores and of course we have data to back it up
 * Mandatory Act 45 contract change- any administrator must spend one semester in a classroom every five years
 * Motivation for teachers/admin to incorporate CFF into every classroom
 * Try to retain faculty and adminstration to seek out new ideas and initatives
 * Include adminstration in CFF training and "what" the role of CFF coach really is
 * Train adminstrators and tech directors so they value this and see the possibilities from "experts"
 * Placing teachers in teams to design a PBL activity that can be interdiscplinary as well in order to develop sharing/collaboration
 * Have teachers bring their concerns about technology charges to principals and upper administration
 * Training for administration
 * If the state mandated use of availablity of web 2.0 resources within a district, one of our biggest impediments to use of these tools would be lifted
 * Get the decision makers involved and trainined in 21st century teaching/learning
 * Educate/model administration
 * Change has to come from the top or teachers will continue down the path of less resistance
 * Have PDE invite administrators to conferences like this and tie it to funding
 * Involve administration in boot camp events! (so they are aware of what are trying to do)
 * Hold a 1 day CFF/EETT overview for all administrators


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